P38 Mods (3)

One thing that always made me want a range rover when I was younger, was the screens in the rear headrests. The thought of having the option of watching videos (yes, actual VHS videos!) while stuck in the back of a car on a road trip was just mind blowing to my teenage self. On buying my very own V8 powered beast, rear screens were one of the first things I wanted to add (since mine originally didn’t have them fitted).

After having my range rover for a couple of months, a few things have started to annoy me, notably having to push the wing mirrors in when I park up on my (narrow, typically British) front street. Because the car is so wide, if I park with the nearside next to the kerb I have to walk round the car to reach the mirror on that side. Clearly this is unacceptable, so I sought a solution.

I’ve had limited success doing multi-part posts in the past, but for this little ongoing project I thought I’d give it another go….

At the ripe old age of 38, in April 2018 I passed my driving test (4 minors, all to do with use of mirrors!) and decided to buy my first car. Rather than go for something boring, that just…worked, I thought I’d go for possibly the most troublesome, unreliable and badly engineered car I could find which led to me spending in the region of £2000 on this beautiful boxy vision of british engineering: